Chief Electoral Officer
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'Sign under oath': Karnataka, Maharashtra CEOs challenge Rahul Gandhi's 'poll rigging' allegations
Karnataka | Aug 07, 2025, 07:02 PM ISTRahul Gandhi elaborated that, looking at the numbers, using official 2024 Election Commission data, the total votes polled in the Lok Sabha were 6.26 lakh. The BJP ultimately secured 6,58,915 votes, defeating us by a margin of 32,707 in Karnataka's Mahadevapura seat.
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Haryana prepares for upcoming assembly elections with over 20,000 polling stations
Haryana | Aug 03, 2024, 11:08 PM ISTHaryana's Chief Electoral Officer Pankaj Agarwal announced the establishment of 20,629 polling booths for the upcoming state assembly elections. A preliminary voter list has been published, and political parties are urged to review and report errors by August 16.
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Rapido to offer free rides to voters on polling day in Delhi, announces Chief Electoral Officer
Delhi | May 09, 2024, 07:09 PM ISTWith 13,637 and four auxiliary -- including 2,891 critical -- polling stations at 2,627 locations to be set up in Delhi, 70 pink booths will also be set up, which will be handled by women officials only. Along with this, 70 model polling booths will be set up similarly, the officer said.
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Kerala geared up to hold free and fair elections: Chief Electoral Officer
News | Feb 28, 2021, 02:45 PM ISTKerala Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena assured that Kerala is fully ready to hold free, fair, credible and independent elections.
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Voter turnout in Delhi assembly polls was 62.59%: EC
Elections | Feb 09, 2020, 10:53 PM ISTDelhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh informed that the voter turnout in Delhi was 62.59%, which is about 2% more than last Lok Sabha elections.
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S K Lohani new Chief Electoral Officer of Odisha
India | Sep 27, 2019, 03:06 PM ISTThe Election Commission of Indian (ECI) has approved the appointment of Sushil Kumar Lohani as the next Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha, an official said on Friday.
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Shurbir Singh appointed Chief Electoral Officer in Puducherry
Elections | Sep 27, 2019, 10:47 AM ISTSingh is presently Secretary to the territorial government. The Election Commission has sent a communication to Chief Secretary Ashwani Kumar, informing him that Shurbir Singh has been appointed as the next CEO.
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Delhi CEO notice to BJP for 'airing poll-related content' on NaMo TV: Official
May 11, 2019, 06:09 PM ISTAll seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the national capital will vote on May 12 and there are over 1.43 crore voters in the city. A silence period of 48 hours kicked in from 6 pm Friday and will last till 6 pm on Sunday.
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Chief electoral officer receives complaints on Mayawati's speech during Deoband rally, seeks report
Apr 08, 2019, 08:49 AM ISTDuring the rally Sunday, Mayawati said the Congress was busy dividing the votes and cautioned the gathering to guard against any such attempt.
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Chief Electoral Officer to write to J&K administration as Congress alleges its leaders' security 'withdrawn'
Apr 03, 2019, 05:37 PM IST"We are writing to (the state) government to take their view on this (withdrawal of security and accommodation to Congress leaders and its chief in Jammu and Kashmir)," Shailendra Kumar, the CEO, told PTI on Wednesday.
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8 lakh applications received for deletion of voters in Andhra, Chief Electoral Officer orders police case
India | Mar 04, 2019, 08:52 AM ISTFirm action would be taken against those misusing form-7 to seek removal of names of eligible voters, CEO Gopal Krishna Dwivedi said.
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Mizoram Assembly Elections: EC replaces SB Shashank as Chief Electoral Officer, Ashish Kundra to take charge
Nov 15, 2018, 02:03 PM ISTThe order came after a high-level Election Commission team held meetings last week, including with the Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee (MNCC), which had been spearheading the state-wide protests for Shashank's removal and reinstatement of the ousted Principal Secretary (Home).
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Citizens can report MCC violations on cVILGIL app: Rajasthan CEO
India | Oct 08, 2018, 06:45 PM ISTAddressing a meeting during the state-level cVIGIL app training exercise for election officers, Kumar said citizens with the application can click a picture or record a video of upto two minutes' of the scene of MCC violations.
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Nothing was removed from any Temple, as per law flags on the roads were cleaned: EC
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Delhi Polls: Polling booths in Delhi to be no-smoking zones
National | Jan 29, 2015, 06:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: All polling booths for the Feb 7 assembly election in the national capital would be no-smoking zones, it was announced on Thursday.Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer has issued instructions to all district electoral officers-cum-district